Logo Lights

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Skillet

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Major important question of the day. Sitting at the ATL airport and noticed that there are no logo lights on anything except AirTran's birds. Seriously nothing, what gives?
 
Our 200s don't have them, but our 300s do. Left up to the crew whether or not to use them.

I heard once that if logo lights are installed and not used at night the crew is likely pissed off at the company. Or just MEL'd.


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When I worked the ramp at DTW, I noticed Delta one one of the few operators that didn't use the logo lights. Most of their regional feed didn't use them either, except the RAH family and SkyWest.
 
DPApilot said:
Our Saabs don't even have them installed.
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That's because you can hear it coming and know right away who it is.

BobDDuck said:
They cost money to replace when they burn out.
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Eagle is one of a handful of places that is sufficiently tight fisted that they won't even run the navigation lights (universal signal for "Ai yo, power's on") during the daytime. Someone once said that they saved $1 million a year doing that; I have no idea if it's true or not.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
That's because you can hear it coming and know right away who it is.


Eagle is one of a handful of places that is sufficiently tight fisted that they won't even run the navigation lights (universal signal for "Ai yo, power's on") during the daytime. Someone once said that they saved $1 million a year doing that; I have no idea if it's true or not.
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$1,000,000 saved in one year by not turning on two lightbulbs per airplane part of the day, that last thousands of hours of flight time.

I know whether I believe it or not.
 
mikecweb said:
One Luv!
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Oh no you di'nt!
Nick said:
$1,000,000 saved in one year by not turning on two lightbulbs per airplane part of the day, that last thousands of hours of flight time.

I know whether I believe it or not.
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It never passed the sniff test with me. The real reason, I think, has to do with "if it isn't on, you don't know if it's burned out, and therefore will not harass MOC to defer the lights/get authorization to flip the switch—never mind industry standard practices."
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Oh no you di'nt!

It never passed the sniff test with me. The real reason, I think, has to do with "if it isn't on, you don't know if it's burned out, and therefore will not harass MOC to defer the lights/get authorization to flip the switch—never mind industry standard practices."
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You have to throw a switch to use the other set?

On the Dash, it's automatic.


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Free advertising, and customers like it... Not sure why anyone would say no. Especially in a company that big. From half an hour before pushback to 10 minutes after takeoff can't cost that much long-term. Put it in the marketing budget.
 
All the deltas I see use them. Only one that I have noticed with out them on are the UPS 757s that come here.
 
I've never noticed it being a company thing. Seems some pilots turn it on, some don't, regardless of carrier. At least on the West Coast. I'm sure ground controllers appreciate it. I know a few United pilots have said they don't use it because they hate the company, but I can't imagine every plane flying around with the logo light off has a pissed off crew.

Well, I can imagine that, actually, but I hope not.

Fun fact, the logo light was first installed on Hugh Hefner's DC-9-30 so that everyone could see the Playboy Bunny logo lit up at night. So we can thank him for that.
 
X-Forces said:
You mean there are LINES on the Charlotte ramp?!?
Get out of here!! :)

(For all who don't get the joke, KCLT ramp is the absolute Wild Wild West of U.S. airport movement areas)
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Atleast once a day, we land in Charlotte 25 minutes early and arrive at the gate 10 minutes late (hold between spots 5 and 6 while we let one RJ at a time go to the line). Add another 5-15 minutes for the ramp to get out there and find their wands.
 
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